Getting online to know you have mail is not an easy way to know when something is pending. I do not understand why yahoo does not open it’s free accounts up to being collected through a pop server like AOL, MSN, Google, and the rest of the free email company’s.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:44 am
yeah greedy B*********!
However if you join Yahoo New Zealand they offer it free!
April 17th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
The probable answer is that they need to spend money to keep POP servers running just so you can use the POP clients while the huge majority of their accounts are web based so its much cheaper to run those servers. Yahoo has mostly been web based for the entire time the service has been around so it probably is more expensive for them to run POP servers while the other carriers have had those services for a longer time making easier (hence cheaper) to run versus adding new hardware/software to keep a few people happy. It’s similar to backwards compatibility and why many companies don’t fo that either. When it comes down to it, it probably leads back the almighty dollar and what makes business sense. Thats my guess anyway!